My top candidates:1. Mass ave bridge when a bus zooms past me, giving me 3 blissful seconds of perfect draft.2. Coming down off the BU bridge towards Cambridge, when that light is green and you can sail quick through the underpass. 3. Biking ultra slow through Downtown crossing at rush hour.

AND THE WORST...1. Coming around the bend on South Huntington at Heath Street, thinking my wheel will catch in the trolley track and I will be completely dead. 2. Longfellow bridge (huff puff huff puff huff puff wheeeeeeBUMPwheeBUMPwheeBUMPwheeBUMP SCREEEEEEECH red light every goddamn time)

Best:1. 1200 block of Boylston coming back from the Medical Area...2. Behind the Schrafft's Center (not even on the bike, per se, just watching the cranes across the river move stuff from one pile to another3. Most of Kendall Square, Cambridge (so long as you don't end up on the Longfellow Bridge in the end)4. Seaport Blvd. and/or Summer St. outbound across the channel.

Worst:1. Prospect St. Cambridge2. Rutherford Ave in Chucktown coming back up from underneath the Austin St. overpass (Yield sign, motherfucker!). By extension, that rotary where it looks like everybody's going to cut you off to get to Everett isn't so hot, either. 3. Most of Rte. 28 Westbound.4. Most of Mass Ave., Boston5. Most of Central Square, Cambridge6. Most of Harvard Square, Cambridge7. A St. South Boston

i might be biased, however, as mr. harper from mattapan felt that need to t-bone me there. messed my day/week/month/etc up some. drivers around that area are out of their damn minds. too preoccupied with being important doctors and all that to care about other human beings on the road.

BEST:Huntington Going into the city when you catch all the lights starting just past south Huntington.Ripping Beacon from washigton square to kenmore if the lights are goodAnywhere during rush hour when you get to own all the smucks in cars

Worst:Crossing the tracks from South Huntigton to Brookline VillageLongfellow bridge coming back into the city in those fun bumps that where earlier mentionedI have forgoten the name of the street, in between Tremont and Atlantic if you come right off Boyloston I hate all the holes.-LD

That huntington ave stretch is sick. Especially when its late at night and you shoot two or three lights and have an open road from the top of the "hill" by mass art all the way to Qdoba by northeastern.

On a nice day, riding on the Fenway by SMFA is sweet. So are the roads near the reservoir by BC.

I strongly dislike all of mass ave in cambridge and that stretch of road near the basketball court leading towards south station.

Best:Coming down fort hill from Roxbury across Columbus ave and through the Heath st rotary can feel like a rollercoaster if you catch the light at Columbus. Coming into the intersection of Harvard and Comm ave from coolidge at speed can be interesting.Riding to 1 western ave to drink, sit, or talk in the architecture.Smoking Traffic on Melnea Cass.

best: -gunna go with the 1200boyalston all the way to tremont. nothing like flying through those intersections. -park plaza all the down st james to huntington into 111/101 huntington loading dock.-third st from east cambridge to one broadway-newbury st during the day (yes during the day)-surface road from norwash area all the way to summer-im really starting to like the southend alot

worst:-all of cambridge except for the one i mentioned earlier-downtown crossing at all times-BlACK FALCON its fun to ride i just hate going there-newbury st (during the day)(yeah i said it) lol-kneeland st from tremont to atlanticride bikes for money not for fun(unless your drunk)

I actually don't mind Cambridge or Mass Ave at all but that's just me. I bike for exercise and fun not for work, I do 20-30 miles everyday between 9am and Noon often with stops in Central Sq and Downtown/Chinatown for food, bike parts, and books. I'll admit it I'm a shopaholic. Riding in Boston may be hectic cause of the busses, taxis, and mass of people BUT I'm used to riding in a small ass city of New Bedford and all the burbs down there from Cape Cod to Providence, RI and those people aren't used to bikes ESPECIALLY in the road and can't handle it and beg you to stay on the sidewalks. Its refreshing to ride around vehicles that the drivers don't have heart attacks cause I am next to them.Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world

best:columbia from mass ave all the way through franklin parkatlantic ave heading north during massive trafficthat stretch of cambridge st in allston from the descent toward n harvard to the river st bridgehaul road westboundmass ave from central to north cambridge at 5AM, especially blasting through harvard squaregreenough blvd/mem drive in cambridge at nightthe arboretum at night

worst:beacham st/williams stkenmore during a big sox games huntington during a snowstormcentral square at 2:30AM on a weekend

i might be biased, however, as mr. harper from mattapan felt that need to t-bone me there. messed my day/week/month/etc up some. drivers around that area are out of their damn minds. too preoccupied with being important doctors and all that to care about other human beings on the road.

I second that, I live over there and I am pretty confident one of the drivers in that intersection is going to kill me.

Everywhere else is great.Esp. the stretch of Broadway in Somerville between Mcgrath highway and Sullivan Square, and anywhere in between South Station and the B Side Cafe.In the big rock candy mountain, the jails are made of tin

best: catching a draft off the semis along binny st coming out of cambridge.the little side roads out along rt 2 in lexington/arlington.brookine at night- no parked cars. comm ave from mass ave to the commons. The slight downhill slope coming back east into cambridge from bellmont or watertown. The middle of any street during a snowstorm. the espanade late at night.

worst:mass ave through central square. the worst. sullivan square and bu bridge rotaries. anywhere with trolley tracks on the street. bonus negative points to the places in jp where the tracks appear and disappear every block.Troglodytarum is latin for troll

Pugatch is 49x18:BEST:christian science center in the rain its a skidder's playground

WORST:prospect street from central sq to somerville ave

I actually don't mind Cambridge or Mass Ave at all but that's just me. I bike for exercise and fun not for work, I do 20-30 miles everyday between 9am and Noon often with stops in Central Sq and Downtown/Chinatown for food, bike parts, and books. I'll admit it I'm a shopaholic. Riding in Boston may be hectic cause of the busses, taxis, and mass of people BUT I'm used to riding in a small ass city of New Bedford and all the burbs down there from Cape Cod to Providence, RI and those people aren't used to bikes ESPECIALLY in the road and can't handle it and beg you to stay on the sidewalks. Its refreshing to ride around vehicles that the drivers don't have heart attacks cause I am next to them.

agreed Prospect is the worst.

and hanging out at the csc with you was the best ride ever, in my opinion :)never say die

Everywhere else is great.Esp. the stretch of Broadway in Somerville between Mcgrath highway and Sullivan Square, and anywhere in between South Station and the B Side Cafe.

That's a pretty excellent stretch just for strolling along. The night before Thanksgiving (around 615 on a Wednesday mind you) I was walking to the orange line with a pie in my hands, and it might as well have been prime-time Saturday night in Central Square...